Canadian literature

The term Canadian literature referred prose, poetry, drama in English and French from Canada.

Among the well-known Anglophone writers after the Second World War include Robertson Davies, Mordecai Richler and Timothy Findley. Among the writers: Mavis Gallant, who has lived since the 1950s in Paris, Margaret Lawrence ( The Stone Angel, The Diviners ), Margaret Atwood and the Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro, an author of short stories.

Excellent French-Canadian authors are Gabrielle Roy, Anne Hébert ( Kamouraska ), Marie -Claire Blais and Antonine Maillet. Among the most important French-Canadian authors include the poet Saint- Denys Garneau, Hubert Aquin and Michel Tremblay, the vernacular which the joual, brought to the stage. The French-Canadian author with West African roots Ryad Assani - Razaki emerges with his first novel, La main d' Iman ( Iman dt ), also in France and in Germany.

Among the successful authors of minorities include Rudy Wiebe and Joy Kogawa ( Obasan ). One must not confuse the language barrier but with the political boundaries. The Anglophone poet A.M. Klein, Louis Dudek and Irving Layton and the novelist Hugh MacLennan and Mordecai Richler lived in Montreal, Quebec. From the Anglophone Jewish Montreal also Leonard Cohen comes from.

Not for the Canadian literature, the traditional literatures of Native Americans, the Esquimaux (Inuit, Yupik ), the other First Nations are counted. A well-known English poet is the Mi'kmaq First Nations Rita Joe.

Margaret Atwood

To Margaret Atwood's most important works is their analysis of the Canadian will to survive, Survival (1972 ), the poetry collection The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970 ), which deals with the same subject and her novel Surfacing (1972 ) on German The long dream Surfacing has been called " key work Canadian literature referred to " and he succeeded Atwood 's international breakthrough.

Carol Shields

Carol Shields was born in Illinois, married in 1957, however, a Canadian and lived and worked in Canada since then. She has, like Atwood, deals extensively with Susanna Moodie. Shields has written a number of award-winning novels. inter alia, the Pulitzer Prize - book The Stone Diaries (1993 ), German The Diary of Daisy Goodwill, Larry's Party (1997) and Unless (2002), German History of Reta Winters, who was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Shields died in 2003 from cancer.

Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje was awarded in 1970 the prestigious Governor General's Award for Potry. The Jazz novella Coming through Slaughter (1976 ), but especially the Toronto novel In the Skin of a Lion (1987 ) were early recognized works. The English Patient (1992 ) and its film adaptation made ​​him an internationally known name.

Samuel Selvon

The most famous book of Samuel Selvon was born in Trinidad (1923-1994), The Lonely Londoners was published in 1956. Selvon had emigrated to London in 1950 and became a writer. He lived since 1978 in Canada, Calgary ( Alberta), where he published a series of shows, inter alia, the novels Moses Migrating (1983) and Foreday Morning ( 1989).

Jane Urquhart

Jane Urquhart is from Longlac ( Greenstone ) in Northern Ontario. She attended a private school in Toronto and studied English and art history in Guelph. Her first novel, The Whirlpool (1986 ) received in 1992 as the first Canadian book the French prize for the best foreign novel. The Underworld Painter won the 1997 Governor General's Award for Fiction.